Re: Remote Desktop problems

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From: Phil \(a.k.a. purplehaz\) (software_at_for.me)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:41:20 -0400

Great. Now it gets a bit tricker, since you have a router involved. The
first thing you have to do is setup the router to port forward. In the
routers config page (usually at 192.168.0.1) you should see settings to
setup port forwarding. You will have to tell the router to open port 3389
and if anyone tries to connect to it to forward that connection to your
computers lan ip address that has remote desktop listening.
(note: 3389 is the default port and can be changed in the registry for added
security).
Once you have the port forwarding setup, from outside your network you would
try to connect to your networks WAN ip address. You'll find this in the
router info pages. When a connection to the wan is initiated it will forward
that connection to the correct box, the logon will popup, and you can log
in.
Note: the computer listening with RD must be online
Note: if you change the default port then when you try to connect you have
to specify the port as well, like this:
66.66.66.68:7777

Tom Richards wrote:
> Wow Phil...that worked! I assigned myself a psswd and voila....Now,
> once I make sure the appropriate files are installed on my remote
> (girlfriend's - xp home) machine, what address would she use to
> access my desktop?
>
>
> "Phil (a.k.a. purplehaz)" <software@for.me> wrote in message
> news:%23yMViaYIEHA.964@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> I assume your connecting to the lan ip address of the other xp pro
>> box(or the laptops full computer name) and all software firewalls
>> are turned off. Once the logon box comes up, you put in a user name
>> that's on the computer your connecting to and its password. If the
>> user account does not exist and /or does not have a password on the
>> box your connecting to you'll get an error message. Does user sal
>> exist on the box your connecting to? Does the user sal have a
>> password?
>>
>> Tom Richards wrote:
>>> I've never been able to get Remote Desktop to work. But I'm trying
>>> again. I've searched the newsgroups and terminal services is
>>> started, there's nothing in event viewer and rd is installed on
>>> both pcs - I'm trying to connect my server pc (desktop) to my
>>> laptop on my home network. Both run xp pro. I get to the rd logon
>>> screen on my laptop, type in my desktop name (sal) and get the "the
>>> client could not connect to the remote computer" error message. I'm
>>> using a lynksyss router and tried entering the wan and lan ip
>>> address instead of sal - no good. The router is set to assign a wan
>>> address automatically. I also ran a run command to determine if the
>>> ports were "listening" and they all were.
>>>
>>> My home network works fine - shared printer, files, etc. I'd like to
>>> eventually work remotely from a machine running xp home but if I
>>> can't get my home network up and running, I guess that won't work
>>> either.

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